Gets stolen by the Fairies, then 70 years later gets a pension.

1909, Ireland. That she recollected being kidnapped in infancy by the fairies was the astounding evidence by which an old woman of Done-gal. Annie McEntire by name. fixed her birthday in support of a claim to a pension made before the Limavady Committee on Monday: She said she did not know the number of her years, but she remembered being stolen by the ‘wee people’ on Halloween night, 1839. ‘Are you quite certain about that?’ asked the chairman. ‘I am as sure of it as I am of standing here.’ the old lady emphatically replied. ‘By good luck my brother happened to be coming home from Cardonagh that night, and heard the fairies singing and saw them dancing round me in the wood at Carnorleel. He had a book with him, and he threw it among them. They ran away and he lifted me in his arms and carried me back to my mother. The applicant added that there was great rejoicing over the rescue. Her mother was in ecstacies at getting her back, and the people celebrated the event by great feasting and drinking. The pension officer said there was no entry of her age in either 1841 or 1851 census. The committee decided to grant the pension.

‘Stolen by Fairies’, Lurgan Times (14 Aug 1909), 2